Responsibility
Often when people ask, “Who is responsible?” they mean, “Who is to blame?” But responsibility is not the same as blame. And so in some psychotherapies (the one’s I like best) people speak of responsibility being ‘response-ability’ – your responsibility is your ability to respond. (If you can’t respond then you aren’t responsible). This can [...]
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A good blog friend of mine, Chris Edgar, has just started an important and worthwhile blog. It is sorting through the criticisms of the self-help/self-development/personal-growth field. There has been a few books published lately doing this kind of thing. I am very glad that Chris is doing this – I think that our thinking can [...]
Image by Monochrome I can remember that particular tone in my mother’s voice when she told me to clean up my room. Perhaps you can too. And yet she hasn’t said that to me for more than thirty years. Perhaps your parents are even dead. And yet when we remember our parents we often react. [...]
